More Solid Learning: New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad

These essays teach Pope's Dunciad from a variety of perspectives. Contributors issues including Pope's psychosexual development, his antipathy to opera, Pope's centrality in the debates over the often-gendered nature of literary labor, and his repudiation in Book IV of The Dunciad of the concepts of masculine conduct from which he was excluded, the reconstruction of Pope's body and persona in Edmund Curll's pamphlets responding to the 1728 Dunciad, and Pope's adaptation of the Renaissance satirist's "Rabelaisian" imagery and purposes.

Catherine Ingrassia is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit.

Claudia N. Thomas is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, and is the author of Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth-Century Women Readers.